Email services have become near-universal across a wide range of industries and personal use purposes. Countless messages are exchanged between parties every day, but with this innovation comes great risk — cyber criminals target email communications with the goal of seizing, encrypting, and holding data hostage. Of the threats to email security, phishing is the… [Read More]
OTI Faculty News – Dr Jeanette Hennigan
I am immensely proud and excited to tell you about what our newest faculty member has achieved. Pictured here with her Academic Advisor Dr Stephen Goss (Director of Studies and Principal Lecturer at the Metanoia Institute) and Middlesex University Link tutor to Metanoia Dr David Westley. (drum roll…..) Dr Jeanette Hennigan, Specialist in online therapy… [Read More]
Can online counselling in school work?
BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2018. Read online at BACP (members only). Train to work online with Children and Young People at the Online Therapy Institute. Jeanette Hennigan moved from a position of unaware doubtfulness to providing a group-wide school online service that has added a much-needed dimension to counselling accessibility Since first training… [Read More]
Online therapy – applicability for people who identify as neurodivergent
As part of an assignment for the Online Therapy Institute’s Certified Cyber Therapist course, I have been thinking about the concept of “presence” in online therapy (Lombard & Ditton, 2006). What type of “presence” it is that most resonates with me, or that I would seek to try and create in my online therapeutic work?… [Read More]
Understanding the Virtual Experience
Technology is becoming more accessible to individuals of all ages and is developing into an inseparable part of modern culture. While it makes many of our lives easier with its convenience it is also important to think about how it can help clients in a therapeutic sense. However, psychological therapy’s methods have not advanced nearly… [Read More]
How Practical Technology Use In Mental Health Can Be Beneficial
Are you aware of the fact that mental health problems continue to grow in the United States? In fact, there are millions of Americans that are suffering from mental problems. This is further worsened by the fact that most conditions have no known cures. Therefore, patients are often instructed to consume prescription medications that are… [Read More]
An Online Therapist’s 20-Year Voyage through Cyberspace
GUEST BLOG reposted with permission from the author, John Silver. FREE SEX THERAPY! That was how my psychotherapy practice was listed on AOL if you were on the Information Superhighway in 1995 searching for “Therapy in Los Angeles.” Thus began my trip through Cyberspace 20 years ago. I had just sold The Counseling Center of… [Read More]
What happens when an online counselling trainee seeks online counselling?
As a therapist I recently completed a course in how to offer counselling online (the Online Therapy institute’s Certified Cyber Therapist (CCT) credential). I found myself learning about netiquette, the different plausible modalities of Instant messaging, video, voice call or email and even the possibility of offering counselling in a virtual world! I started exploring… [Read More]
